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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Closed syllable






2. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






3. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






4. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






5. Multisensory Structured Language






6. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






7. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






8. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






9. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






10. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






11. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






12. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






13. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






15. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






16. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






17. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






19. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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20. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






21. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






22. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






23. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






24. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






25. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






26. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






27. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






28. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






29. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






30. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






31. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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32. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






33. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






34. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






35. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






36. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






37. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






38. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






39. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






40. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






41. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






42. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






43. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






44. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






45. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






46. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






48. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






49. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






50. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds